The Kelvin Hall project has received another accolade, winning two categories at the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) Scottish awards.

The £35million project, in which the University of Glasgow is a key partner, was selected as Project of the Year and also won an award in the Tourism and Leisure category.

Delivered by Page/Park Architects, Gardiner & Theobald and McLaughlin and Harvey Construction for Glasgow Life, the category-B listed Kelvin Hall reopened to the public in August 2016. It has undergone a three-year development which has transformed the 90-year-old venue into a multi-purpose sports, culture and education building.

The redevelopment provides a public sports facility, complete with a multi-purpose sports hall, gymnastic academy and fitness studios; along with exhibition spaces, archives and teaching, and research facilities for Glasgow Life, University of Glasgow and National Library of Scotland.

The award nomination said: "The holistic brief and design provides an exemplary cultural venue that offers modern sports facilities and publicly accessible storage for more than 1.5 million objects and screen archives, creating an unprecedented facility with public access for cross-collection research and collaboration."

View the announcement on the RICS Awards website

First published: 2 May 2017

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